By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, October 21 at 11:02 AM
For a few minutes, Friday's Board of Aldermen meeting was turned into a forum by backers of a proposed civilian review board.
Members of the Coalition Against Police Crimes and Repression, who are pressing for adoption of Board Bill 69, staged a vocal demonstration shortly after the start of the meeting. When Alderman Terry Kennedy (D-18), the sponsor of BB 69, introduced two members of the Coalition, Jamala Rogers and Zaki Baruti, as his special guests, the gallery erupted with shouts of "pass board bill 69!" from at 20 or so members of the coalition. This went on for over a minute.
After the meeting, Kennedy told PUB DEF Weekly, "Of course I didn't know that they were going to do that or that it was going to happen that way."
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